Parallel Startup for KDE.

[C.O.Backstrom]

Waldo Bastian wrote:

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> On Tuesday 30 September 2003 13:36, Stefan Heimers wrote:
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>>On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Lubos Lunak wrote:
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>>> Perhaps on multi-CPU systems, but in general no - the same amount of
>>>work needs to be done, and it doesn't matter much in how many threads.
>>>But there's also a difference between KDE startup and system startup.
>>>During system startup, many of the started services wait for hardware to
>>>initialize, connect to remote systems, and similar things that make them
>>>wait while doing nothing. Starting more services in parallel helps there.
>>>But with KDE the CPU should be fully used all the time.
>>
>>What about loading files? KDE loads a huge number of separate config
>>files, each needing disk seek time or slow NFS-links. It's quite possible
>>that even a single CPU is idle from time to time.
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> 
> It would be nice to have a high-resolution graph (e.g. a 20m sample interval)
> of the state of the various processes during startup to get an idea what is 
> happening.
> 

I'll have a play around after work today. I havn't got my laptop here. I 
also want to check that the startup sequence really uses 100% cpu. Can't 
say I belive it does. Is it possible to use top to dump the data? Or any 
other suggestions?

Cheers,

/Chris

> Cheers,
> Waldo
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